The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1887-06-09
Taliahsssee. Fla. Sa.e D. ass'.
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Mr. 81. H Walker mas succeeoeu N@- -
Walker as editor and publisher of the Crawford
Vile WakuLa Times, and his work is highly
credltable.
The Lakeland Ne,rs has become the FIortdd
Cracker, aud we are glad that this name Is backed
by the ability to make it as respected as we ho'u
it deserves. We salute you, brother cracker.
Our fathers were pioneers in the land.
The Suwannee and Gulf Railroad, though 1t
appears to be mapping just now, will soon startle
those who think it dead 1t is destined to yet be
one of the institutions OF Levy county.-Lery
Times.
--Ex-Judge f. J. Vaun is man we'll qualified
Tor Railroad Commissioner in every respect, ana
We nominate him for one of the Commissioners.
Our citizens would be delighted to see him re-
ceive the apponmenL-Lice OAK Banner.
That gallant Christian gentleman, Gen j. j.
Finley, has been appointed and confirmed Judge
of the Fifth Judicial Circuit In common with
his triends-the entire people OF tlorida-we
congratulate him on the we'll deserved henor.-
Eustis Lake Region.
The Orlando Reporter 10 one of the neatest |
printed and best edited papers in the State.
Friend Gore has done much towards making |
Orlando and Orange county what il is and those
people should stand by him.-Leesbury Com
mtrcidl
-Four hundred hands are engaged in the
northern part Of the county cutting right of way
and getting out bridge timbers for the Silver
Springs, Ocaa and Gulf Railway. The work is
progressing rapidly in this direction.-B rooksrik
NerS
Col. James B. Andrews, Of Allegheny City,
Pa, is to be elected Capt Eads' successor as en-
gineer of the Tehuantepec Ship Railway. Thirty
wealthy men of PtlSburg have $15,000000 in
vested in the scheme. 1t will be vigorously
pushed
All accounts agree that our friend, Judge
Lamar, established for himself at Tallahassee,
during the late session Of the Legislature, a fine
reputation as II Jealous worker and eloquent and
forcible orator. He has a bright future before
him.--Nonticello Constitution.
A Jacksonville dispatch of the 9th says;
Judge Settle has ordered the Florida Railway
and Navigation Companys road to be sold the
first Monday in November on a petition filed by
the first mortgage bondholders. 1t is thought
the company will be rcorganlzed and the sale
prevented
sonville next winter is now an assured fact and
Will help build up our State and call in new
settlers more than any other means that could
be used. 1t is to be hope that each county in
the State will be well represented Orlando Al
lance.
A train composed of % cars, all loaded with
vegetables, consigned TO various points in the
North, left here Thursday morning over the
s, F. & W. road The F. r. & N road is also
| moving out vegetable trains every day. The
most interesting feature about it is that all con-
signments are selling well in the market
| Gainesville Adoocate
The Louisville & Nashville is way up
among the first in the list of railroads showing
increase Of earnings. What, with such men as
Vice President Smith at its head it is only nau-
raj that the L. & N. should stand high. Mr..
Smiths wise and liberal policy have in a few
years put him IN the forefront of the great
minds of the country.-Birmingham Age.
The number Of yellow fever cases that have
occurred in Key West is limited, and the disease
does not extend in way that would indicate the
probability of serious epidemic A dispatch to
the jacksonville News Herald states that Cuban
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fever, but incline to the opinion that it is merely
an acclimating fever of malignant type.
Tom Harris paper, the OcdkI Free Press
has celebrated its third birthday. The Press has
a live, pushing editor and manager, as is
evidenced by its good makeup and fulness
touching matters of local and general interest,
and is making itself felt We wish Tom and his
excellent paper continued prosperity, and trust
that its recent celebration may be one of many
to come.-Leeburg Commercial
The work of driving piles for the founda-
lion of the Alcazar is progressing very rapidly
two steam ple-drivers and horizontal crcu-
| lar saw are in constant motion ten hours of each
day. The saw works at the end of a perpen-
dicular shaft about three feet below the surface
of the ground, and cuts off the largest piles at
uniform height with astonishing rapidity. Col.
| Lane supernends this curious mode of saving
st augustine Weekly.
The statement having been made in several
newspapers that Hon. r. w. DAVIS, of this city,
| was applicant for the position Of Railroad
| Commissioner, a Palatka 1Nens reporter, yester-
! day, asked that gentleman if the report were
true. In reply he stated in the most unqualified
terms that he was not an applicant for the pc
! sition. " | do not desire such position" said
| Mr. Davis " and would not take ii if rendered
me, even at salary as great as the three Com
missioners will draw. No, you can state most
emphatcally that l am not an applicant, and
would not take position on the Commission
under any circumstances "-PlLdtka Neacs.
| While at Tallahassee, last week. the writer
had the pleasure of meeting, in the FLoRIDIAN
sanctum, a number of the shining lights in the
NANCY pack ofjournalistc ours" There were
the able and respected proprietors of the liking
of the Weeklies," Messrs. DOR and Bowen, c. A.
Choa,e, the accomplished and versatile editor
| of the Seville Independent and the Tallahassee
correspondent Of the Palatka Duly Neaos and
| the writer whose caustc and we'll deserved
| criticisms of the rule-or-ruin methods of Jonah
Jones evoked from this prince of disreputabe
journalism the disgraceful Characterization of
the Stale press that has won for him their ever
lasting detestation. By the way, the Herald pro-
poses the organization, at Fernandina on the 18th
proximO, of an association TO be styled 1.-THE
NANCY Pack of Journalistic Ours" What say
the State press ?-1acares Herald
The State of Florida has so long been known
as the special orange producing State of Amer